Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

100 reviews

my_forest_library's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death of parent

Minor: Blood

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

First book of the year and it was a great one!

After losing her mother to cancer, her close-knit family falling apart, a divorce, and a stint with heroin, Cheryl is desperate for solace. Impulsively, she decides to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, which runs thousands of miles from the Mexico border through California, Oregon, and Washington all the way to Canada. With only her will as her motivation, Cheryl sets out alone with no training and almost no money. It’s on the trail, somewhere between the Mojave Desert and the Washington Bridge of the Gods, that she faces her demons, both past and present.

Wild is a memoir chock-full of raw emotion, adventure, and a different type of coming-of-age. This is neither a how-to book for the PCT or a self-help book, it’s merely a story of how one young woman found her own way to heal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, and Abortion

ophlie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Drug use, and Death of parent

ejaw's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief

horizonous's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse and Infidelity

Minor: Child death, Blood, Abortion, and Pregnancy

◦ Body horror = Toenail injuries
◦ Drug abuse = Heroin

mandaraffe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Infidelity

Minor: Body shaming, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

asmale's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, and Drug use

moony892's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent

ainereads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

molly_hn's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

A perfectly imperfect metaphor for therapy; for therapeutic process and for human striving. The metaphors present will simultaneously haunt and inspire. I found this book in a YMCA charity shop and there is something serendipitous about that given the origins of the PCT. I've kept the book on my shelf for many years and have only just picked it up to read. Everything fell in to place... but a sort of slow falling. At first, the pace felt a little off with flashback that seemed to hold little relevance to the present happenings BUT the magic is in how these sequences actually resemble something true to human experiencing and human defence against experience: we do process in this way and it comes into place with greater and wider meaning in time. Meaning reveals itself slowly and is an ever shifting beast. I am not a hiker. I like nature in that all too millennial way-I know it exists beyond my walls; I know it benefits me; I bring it inside the walls in the form of houseplants... but I rarely have to time to be in and with it. That was not a barrier to appreciating the power and depths of this book. I wouldn't say the book is life-changing but it speaks to a process I feel is little represented in such a-true-to-individuation way. Favourite quote, which lacks meaning without context but perhaps you can insert your own

: 'I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in. I was there now. Or close.' (p.290)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, and Grief

Fairly graphic descriptions of the wounds from hiking (squeamish). Takes an unflinching look at trauma, specifically processing post-trauma.

Graphic depiction of death of an animal which does become material that is processed by the protagonist but is, regardless, a difficult scene to read